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A US Customs and Border Protection officer was reunited with a younger lady who he helped deliver at the US-Mexico border six years in the past.
It was a cold winter morning on December 8, 2016, when Officer J. Lott was in the midst of a sometimes busy day at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, a serious US-Mexico border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego.
As lanes all through the port swarmed with vacationers and officers inspecting their autos, Lott acquired an emergency name a few girl in misery.
A skilled Emergency Medical Technician, he arrived to find a pregnant girl who was going into labor inside her car, the company stated in a news release issued last Thursday.
“I just trusted my training,” Lott stated. “I knew if I remained calm, the mother, the father, and everyone around me would stay calm. Although deep down inside I did not want to fail them.”
Baby Alexa Garcia was born breech, that means her head was positioned to come back out final, including hazard to the strain of delivering a baby whereas surrounded by chaos.
After she was delivered, the emergency escalated when everybody realized Alexa was not respiratory.
“She was really blue, she wasn’t breathing, and unresponsive,” Lott stated. “I quickly administered chest compressions, and after about five or six, she started crying. I was already on my knees, and I just buckled. I remember saying to myself, just keep on breathing baby, just keep on breathing, please.”
Just two months earlier than she turned six years previous, Alexa and Lott bought to fulfill once more, this time underneath a lot relaxed circumstances.
“There wasn’t a dry eye in the room” at the San Ysidro Port of Entry when Alexa bounced in, smiling as she made her means towards Lott to provide him a hug, in line with the launch. Accompanied by her mother and father and two siblings, and Lott, who was with his spouse, the two households shared reminiscences from that fateful day.
They additionally exchanged presents. Lott acquired a framed {photograph} of himself holding Alexa on the day he delivered her, and Alexa acquired a teddy bear in a Customs and Border Protection uniform.
“I believe God put an angel in our hands that day, that angel saved my wife and baby’s life,” Alexa’s father stated throughout the reunion.